“Thirty million of you are now Netflix streaming members. I’d like to express my gratitude to each of you,” said chief executive Reed Hastings on his Facebook page.

80 per cent of Netflix’s users are located in the United States. Surprisingly, there are only five million subscribers outside of the U.S. even though Netflix is available in 50 different countries.

However, Canada still represents a large chunk of this five million.

Canadians collectively spend over three million hours a week watching movies and television on Netflix and the service is present in more than 10 per cent of Canadian homes, landing Canada in second place in terms of Netflix subscribers.

Despite these strong numbers, Canadians still don’t has as much Netflix content as their American counterparts. However, there are ways you can get around that.

CinemaNow, another streaming and download service, also might be a viable alternative to expensive cable TV.